For most people, their iPhone contains all sorts of important data. It contains precious photos, videos, SMS messages, emails, browser history and for some, it contains bank or credit card information. The introduction of Passbook also allows for using your iPhone to make payments. Suffice to say … [Read more...]
Apple today introduced a two-step verification, an optional security feature to safeguard your Apple ID. Those who take part receive a special code to a trusted iOS device. That recovery key code in turn is used in combination with your Apple ID password to make iTunes purchases and get Apple ID … [Read more...]
Losing your iPhone can be a traumatic experience, especially if you are not taking the proper security precautions to keep your data from prying eyes. As someone who typically does not use a passcode, that would allow anyone who found my iPhone to access all sorts of information. As someone who … [Read more...]
Cast your minds back a few years to 2010, when a major security flaw was exposed on AT&T, which left thousands of email addresses unprotected and liable to leak. The man behind exposing the security flaw was one Andrew Auernheimer, who went under the aliases Weev and Escher — and was then … [Read more...]
Earlier this year, we reported on an SMS vulnerability in iOS that could lead to spoofing and security problems. Apple gave a rather hollow response, and then when quiet. Luckily it seems that work has been going on behind the scenes, and according to iJailbreak, the flaw has been fixed with iOS . … [Read more...]
About a week ago, the hacker group AntiSec released 1 million UDIDs into the wild, claiming they came from the FBI. The FBI denied this, but now we may know the source of the leak. Digital publishing platform BlueToad has talked to NBC and released a blog post saying the information was stolen … [Read more...]
The hacker group AntiSec has released an enormous log of UDIDs from Apple devices, allegedly gathered from an FBI laptop. There are 1,000,001 devices in the log, and while some information has been removed, there's an awful lot of personal details. Apparently, this comes from a much larger pool of … [Read more...]
Pod2G is a prominent iOS hacker and security expert, who just revealed on his blog a major and long-standing security flaw in iOS. This flaw has apparently existed since iOS implemented SMS, and still exists in the current iOS 6 beta, and Pod2G has implored Apple to fix it. What he's unearthed … [Read more...]
In July, seemingly out of the blue, Apple purchased the security company AuthenTec for $356 million. AuthenTec products include security, encryption, DRM, and, most tantalizingly, fingerprint scanners. My guess was that Apple might be more interested in the DRM side of things, but it looks like … [Read more...]
